Comments for the final

Here is a link to my comments on Liz W's video

  http://lizipt.blogspot.com/2011/12/my-instructional-video.html#comment-form


Her is a link to my comment on Katy's video
http://katystechnologyblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/this-is-video-that-i-would-assign-my.html?showComment=1323748736531#c8651556403514017915

Parent discussion

I spoke with my mom who just turned 50 and it was great. She has worked a lot with the youth of the church and has raised three teen age boys.  We talked a lot about the talk by elder Bednar Things As They Really Are. We talked a lot about some of the examples he used where people were living life virtually and not experiencing. We also talked about being safe with passwords because I think my parents aren't very safe with the passwords they set up. I shared with them some of the ideas from class and it was received really well. She liked the ideas and was going to make some changes.

It's always been easy to talk to my mom and it was no different with this topic. I feel that she's now more educated about the topic and is going to help her youth in her calling. I feel like this did some real good.

Internet Safety

http://lds.org/library/display/0,4945,538-1-4830-1,00.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/kidsonline/view/

http://lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=138074536cf0c010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____

I really learned that we need to keep in perspective what is real and what isn't real. I really love Elder Bednar's talk. We are robbing the body of experiences if we live our lives virtually or in a second life. It can destroy marriages and family relations.  I think that's what I saw in the video also. Everything is virtual and not as real as it could be.

As a health teacher I'll be able to teach about cyber safety. I hope to get through to them that life is there and real and you can experience that with your body and not just virtually. As a parent we'll have an understanding in our house about how much internet is appropriate and what can be viewed and what can't. It'll be important to build good relationships with my children and teach correct principles so we can avoid things like we saw in the video.

I feel like most of my family and friends are not addicted to the online world. But as they are becoming more educated about the possibilities they need to be aware of the dangers of technology. My mom and I had a great discussion about Things As They Really Are. I hope to be a good example to family and friends in the future and now.


As a teacher I'll need to help students know what to put on line and what not to. This will be an actual lesson in my class and we'll discuss the benefits and dangers of internet use. We'll talk about how to protect themselves.

Instructional Videos

I really think that instructional videos will be helpful in my health class. There are all kinds of videos out there for healthy living ideas.  My students will benefit from adding to these videos and viewing them.  I hope that I will have access to imovie so that my students will be able to create projects like these for my future class. I would make this video an assignment where they would show me they understand key principles of nutrition or fitness.  They would be able to work in groups to accomplish this task and present it to the class.  I feel like the possibilities are pretty endless with technology like this.

multimedia storyboard

Or go here: https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=10mR2rqYEAYGNcCT2f5OZDAZKdM7nX0wNVs8_xN8Pm-I

Power Point Games

I learned how to figure things out when I didn't know them. I tried to email the professor and the TA but I needed to get things done. So I played around with the hyperlink and had to figure stuff out on my own.  I consequently learned how to hyperlink within a power point. The only problem I really had was how to set up the hyperlink, but that was resolved semi-quickly.

I plan on using jeopardy to review for tests, or for a fun activity like a pre-test. I imagine it would get kids thinking about our up coming topics and I could find out what they know and learned

Jeopardy game

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Google Groups

I learned that google groups would be a great way to organize information for my students. They would have links to many articles and have all their information in one place. It is very easy to use and very helpful. I think that it would eliminate kids forgetting handouts or misplacing papers. By posting the documents here they will avoid the problem of losing things.

I think if we did a discussion board about a certain article that it would be super easy to see all your classmates ideas and be able to respond to them.  I also feel that it would be a good way to respond to research that kids are finding. If we researched something as a class we could share that information easily.

Limitations might be that kids don't have enough access to internet or computers outside of class.  They would need training on how to use the site. I'd have to be updating it a lot.  I feel that a class website could be easier than a group.